Project Manager

Centrax Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrax Group seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of finance and actuarial technology projects. You will oversee planning, governance, financial control, risk management and stakeholder alignment through the project lifecycle, ensuring adoption and realization of business benefits.

Reporting to the Head: Centre IT, you will manage multi-workstream efforts, budgets and vendor relationships, driving change from development through to BAU handover in a complex financial

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT or business project management, with 4+ years in insurance or financial services.
• Proven delivery of finance transformation projects: ERP implementations, finance data platforms, reporting or process automation.
• Experience managing multi-million rand budgets, business cases and benefits realisation.
• Strong vendor and contract management, including SOWs and third-party delivery oversight.
• Track record managing multi-workstream projects with cross-system dependencies.
• Working knowledge of business analysis, architecture, data migration and testing.
• Experience facilitating executive governance forums.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Visio and MS Office; Agile and Waterfall.
• Solid understanding of finance and actuarial processes, accounting principles and reporting standards.

Skills

IT project management

Finance/insurance domain experience

Budget and financial control

Vendor management

Contract management

Multi-workstream management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Executive governance facilitation

Negotiation

Analytics and communication

Agile & Waterfall

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Confluence

Visio

MS Office

Job description

Our client, a leading financial services and insurance group, is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of finance and actuarial technology projects — on scope, on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards. Reporting to the Head: Centre IT, you will be accountable for planning, governance, financial control, risk management and stakeholder alignment across the project lifecycle, and for ensuring delivered solutions are adopted by the business and realise their business case benefits.

Key focus areas: integrated planning and delivery management, budget and vendor commercial management, risk, issue and dependency control, steering committee governance and reporting, and change management through to BAU handover.

Requirements

• 8+ years in IT or business project management, with 4+ years in insurance or financial services
  
• Proven delivery of finance transformation projects: ERP implementations, finance data platforms, reporting or process automation
  
• Experience managing multi-million rand budgets, business cases and benefits realisation
  
• Strong vendor and contract management, including SOWs and third-party delivery oversight
  
• Track record managing multi-workstream projects with cross-system dependencies
  
• Working understanding of business analysis, architecture, integration, data migration and testing — enough to challenge constructively
  
• Experience facilitating executive-level governance forums
  
• Strong negotiation, analytical and communication skills
  
• MS Project or equivalent, Jira, Confluence, Visio, MS Office; Agile and Waterfall
  
• Sound understanding of finance and actuarial processes, accounting principles and reporting standards